Seminar series May-June 2019
Invited speakers
This seminar series takes place on a Friday at 12 noon (unless otherwise stated) in the Wellcome Auditorium, QMRI and is not open to the general public.
Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
17th May 2019 |
Dr You Zhou, Division of Infection and Immunity, Cardiff University |
"Informatics in inflammation: translating big data into better livers" |
Dr Chengcan Yao |
24th May 2019 |
Professor Phil Hansbro, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy (Immunology and Microbiology), The University of Newcastle, Australia |
‘Understanding pathogenesis to develop new treatments for respiratory disease’ |
Professor Chris Gregory |
31st May 2019 |
Dr Shishir Shetty, Centre for Liver Research/National Institute for Health Research, The University of Birmingham |
'Scavenger receptors and their role in immune cell positioning during liver injury' | Dr Steve Jenkins |
14th June 2019 |
Professor William Agace, Professor at Mucosal Immunology, Lund University, Sweden and Technical University of Denmark |
'Profiling of immune niches within and along the length of the human intestine' | Dr Gwo-tzer Ho |
12noon Wednesday 19th June |
Professor Jason McDougall, Department of Pharmacology and Anaesthesia, Dalhousie University, Canada |
'Anti-Inflammatory and Analgesic Actions of Cannabis in the Management of Arthritis' | Dr Rodger Duffin |
12noon Tuesday 25th June | Professor Susie Nilsson, Aust Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash University | 'Regulators of hemopoietic stem cells, the players and their roles' | Professor Elaine Dzierzak |
2pm Wednesday 26th June | Professor Fabio Cominelli, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, University Hospitals Cleveland | 'Blocking IL-1 in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Time has Finally Come' | Professor Adriano Rossi |
Organiser: Sonia Rafferty (sonia.rafferty@ed.ac.uk)